People are in general not candid over sexual matters. They do not show their sexuality freely, but to conceal it they wear a heavy overcoat woven on a tissue of lies, as though the weather were bad in the world of sexuality.

Freud is one of those 20th century figures difficult to avoid. His influence stretches beyond depth psychology and those such as Jung and Lacan, to the critical theory and philosophy of Lyotard, Derrida, Foucault and others, and the literature of Breton, Aragon and almost anyone else who lifted a pen in the past 100 years.